In my role as bug czar, I've been trying to work through the backlog
of old unexamined bugs. Unfortunately, many of them (a) have very
little information and (b) are from a long time ago. A good example
is this one: http://bugs.racket-lang.org/query/?cmd=view&pr=9481
There are a few options here:
1. Close old (how old?) bugs that don't have enough information to
triage/reproduce.
2. Put them in the "feedback" state, with a general request for more
information.
3. Attempt to guess at what component this belongs to, and assign it that way.
4. Leave it in the current state.
I think 3 and 4 are both unacceptable. I'm leaning toward 2. The
major drawback of 2 vs 1 is that we accumulate lots of bugs that
nothing will ever happen with. The major drawback of 1 is that we're
saying to someone who took the time to report a bug "we didn't care
about this bug at the time, so now we're closing it".
Thoughts?
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sam th
samth at ccs.neu.edu